PL / I Structured Programming

by Joan K. Hughes and Ted Hughes

Book Overview

A complete course in the PL/I programming language, presented in a simple and logical manner with many features to help the reader grasp the material quickly: checkpoint questions interspersed throughout each chapter; a detailed index to help locate references to technical points and answers to questions; a glossary of terms, and more. Also includes a section on debugging techniques to aid in coding and testing programs, and a case study in each chapter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471837466
• ISBN13: 9780471837466
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This is an excellent training and reference manual.

This book is utilized as a standard reference guide within our PL/I programming group. It doubles as a training reference for new PL/I programmers and as a general desk reference for programmers with more advanced PL/I programming skills. The overall content is well organized and easy to use.

This is the one for PL/I

Robin Vowel's book compliments Hughe's book for a variety of algorithms and none-MVS platforms (emphasizing certain PL/I facilities well). NB. Caution with inexpensive used copies. They may not be the latest edtion. Previous editions are more verbose.

An excellent manual and tutorial for PL/I programming

I needed a reference manual for PL/I and decided to go for this book. It is very good if you are new to the language or are trying to remember what a particular function does. It even has separate sections at the back of the book for ASCII and EBCDIC tables, how the different PL/I data formats are stored in records, and a good summary at the back showing which functions are supported by the various PL/I compilers and subsets. It is not a the cheapest (hardback) book on PL/I but is well worth the investment.